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Forum: Off Topic 2012-07-18, 14:49
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Posted By wmarone
Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones

I did, and as a result I am reserving my enthusiasm. Note that I am not claiming anything to be true.


I think that, as the CEO, he wants to answer as many questions as he can but specifics and...
Forum: Off Topic 2012-07-18, 05:21
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Posted By wmarone
Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones

Actually, we don't know what direction things are pointing. All we have to go on is a possibly accurate, possibly misleading interview with someone who can't give away all the secrets at this time...
Forum: Off Topic 2012-07-17, 02:22
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Posted By wmarone
Re: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones

I will note that they did allow purchases, but only from "registered developers" who were accepted into a special program.

Still, it didn't do much to cultivate any community, though I suppose...
Forum: Competitors 2012-02-08, 20:22
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Views: 67,170
Posted By wmarone
Re: new, open source Linux tablet, 7" with kde plasma !!!

Which is fine if you're OK with the GPL violation. I suspect the price for a direct shipment is completely arbitrary on behalf of the OEM and a sizable percentage will be going to the PA project.
Forum: Competitors 2012-02-08, 20:05
Replies: 160
Views: 67,170
Posted By wmarone
Re: new, open source Linux tablet, 7" with kde plasma !!!

You can always donate on your own.

But to call it greedy is likely to completely fail to understand what it's like dealing with a chinese OEM. I suspect part of the price may be in paying the OEM...
Forum: General 2012-01-24, 17:39
Replies: 17
Views: 8,551
Posted By wmarone
Re: Tizen Source and SDK Preview are here

Tizen was never not using DEB. It's, thus far, directly descended from SLP which was always DEB. Whether the packaging format will change is unknown.


That's because Android doesn't actually do...
Forum: Alternatives 2011-12-30, 17:35
Replies: 494
Views: 260,565
Posted By wmarone
Re: Cordia : Maemo5 UI on top MeeGo Core

It goes beyond merely blocking sideloading.

I had one reserved (but put down no money) and ignored the calls to come in and pick it up once the investigations at xda-devs showed that the unit was...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-11-16, 05:11
Replies: 8
Views: 5,596
Posted By wmarone
Re: IOS vs. Android all looking at Meego

It depends on what you're after. Certainly, I'm here because of the N900 and what it brought to the table in terms of giving me control, and with Mer/Nemo, it's closer to perfect than anything else....
Forum: Alternatives 2011-10-01, 04:30
Replies: 494
Views: 260,565
Posted By wmarone
Re: Cordia : Maemo5 UI on top MeeGo Core

Was there ever clarification about what wasn't open? At least the wifi is a rather boring TI device with drivers already in the kernel... only the graphics are closed as far as I can see.
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-10-01, 04:19
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Views: 75,587
Posted By wmarone
Re: Tizen?

Every solution I've seen people propose so far is basically Apple's .app style, which leaves you with multiple duplicate copies of libraries and wasted memory due to non-shared libraries. You can...
Forum: Alternatives 2011-09-17, 03:10
Replies: 21
Views: 8,270
Posted By wmarone
Re: Windows 8 & WinPhone - how to counterstrike?

Microsoft neglected CLI tools for ages, but on the NT kernel they at least had a minimal POSIX environment. Considering Windows, the move to the NT kernel was probably one of the better jumps they...
Forum: Alternatives 2011-09-17, 01:41
Replies: 21
Views: 8,270
Posted By wmarone
Re: Windows 8 & WinPhone - how to counterstrike?

Considering things like noscript and adblock+ in Firefox aren't plugins but extensions (which work on a fundamentally different level) I don't foresee Metro hindering them.
Forum: Alternatives 2011-09-17, 00:37
Replies: 21
Views: 8,270
Posted By wmarone
Re: Windows 8 & WinPhone - how to counterstrike?

Linux will not counter. The question is if someone is willing to use Linux to counter. Microsoft is betting everything on this and banking on their desktop monopoly and name recognition to push them...
Forum: Competitors 2011-09-14, 04:50
Replies: 16
Views: 5,956
Posted By wmarone
Re: Geeksphone Zero

Complain all you want, but a device developed in this manner would be WAY more likely to see a non-Android platform come to it than any phone released by a major vendor.
Forum: Competitors 2011-09-08, 06:02
Replies: 4,676
Views: 1,333,603
Posted By wmarone
Re: The Epic Android Thread

Pretty much. Once Upon A Time it was a good magazine, but it's just an ad-filled pit these days.

I am more bothered by Florian getting press though.
Forum: Competitors 2011-09-08, 05:43
Replies: 4,676
Views: 1,333,603
Posted By wmarone
Re: The Epic Android Thread

ZDnet's over the top interpretation of the Powerpoint slide is quite amusing, and Florian's bloviating about bullet point 2 is just stupid. It reveals nothing we haven't known for ages.

It is...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-09-07, 05:29
Replies: 50
Views: 11,715
Posted By wmarone
Re: Samsung considering Meego?

Good to see you can FUD with the best of them.
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-09-06, 18:54
Replies: 74
Views: 23,977
Posted By wmarone
Re: Where are all the MeeGo tablets?

Sure. Smoku's primary development work for the UI has been done on top of either fedora or opensuse (not sure which.)

And yes they are missing solutions for the mobile UI.


I like to think of...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-09-06, 15:21
Replies: 74
Views: 23,977
Posted By wmarone
Re: Where are all the MeeGo tablets?

Focus. Ubuntu has no good touch UI, nor does any of the software that it comes with by default have decent touch interfaces.

MeeGo is heavily focused around touch as a means of interacting with...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2011-09-04, 15:12
Replies: 74
Views: 23,977
Posted By wmarone
Re: Where are all the MeeGo tablets?

MeeGo and Android could certainly be that. The problem is the attitude of the hardware manufacturers, regardless of the platform they use.

And as it stands, if you try to force the issue with the...
Forum: Community 2011-08-21, 23:59
Replies: 371
Views: 105,327
Posted By wmarone
Re: The End is Coming: What do we do next?

http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php

And even then, they can't un-GPL what was GPL'd already.
Forum: Community 2011-08-21, 23:14
Replies: 371
Views: 105,327
Posted By wmarone
Re: The End is Coming: What do we do next?

Nokia never tried to close Qt, doing so would be futile due to the agreement established before they ever bought Trolltech. It has been opened even more though, which is always good.
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-08-21, 21:56
Replies: 139
Views: 55,201
Posted By wmarone
Re: Hardware Engineers: Can we replace OMAP 3430 w/ 3630 :)

Not this thread again.

No, it is not that simple. If it was, it would have been done by now.
Forum: Competitors 2011-08-20, 23:30
Replies: 551
Views: 184,566
Posted By wmarone
Re: FusionGarage - Grid 10 (Was: Do we have a Nokia Internet Tablet in waiting? Tabco)

Sadly, webOS has nothing behind it except HP. Even when Nokia bailed, MeeGo still had Intel (on to of being totally open source, unlike webOS.)
Forum: Alternatives 2011-08-19, 06:00
Replies: 494
Views: 260,565
Posted By wmarone
Re: Cordia : Maemo5 UI on top MeeGo Core

Think of it this way:

You may not care about carrying around a tablet, but if you like the project enough to want to support it then maybe you might make an exception. After all, the hardware will...
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